A fire at a poultry plant in northeastern China trapped workers inside a cluttered slaughterhouse, killing at least 119 and injuring dozens more in one of China's worst industrial disasters in years despite recent work safety improvements.

A freight train crashed into a trash truck and derailed Tuesday in a Baltimore suburb and the explosion that followed rattled homes at least a half-mile away, sending a plume of smoke into the air that could be seen for miles, officials and witnesses said.

Seven people in two cars on a highway overpass in Missouri were injured, none seriously, when two 40-foot sections of the overpass crumpled when railcars derailed during a cargo train crash smashed into the bridge's support pillars.